Oceans Of Slumber
Where Gods Fear To Speak
Season of Mist
Epic progressive ish melodic death… harsh and clean vox, a bit of a female american opeth type thing

Incognito Theory
Days Of Reckoning
Curtain Call Records
Hard rockin’ groove metal type stuff.

Ramener
5 Long Years
Independent
Fairly straightforward groovish classic melodic metal/hard rock.

The Distinguished Order of Disobedience
Dissonance
SelfMade Records
Kind of a hardcore mixed with classic metal, prog metal and thrash… lots of cool stuff going on!

CAFFEINE
Release Title: The Threshold
Label: The Lasting Dose Records
Release Date: September 13, 2024
Nice big meaty progressive doom/stoner metal. A bit like Gojira/Mastodon… cool stuff!

Stryper
When We Were Kings (single)
Frontiers Records
Classic song that can only sound like Stryper, but it’s new!

GLARE OF THE SUN
TAL
Lifeforce
September 13th, 2024
Progressive Doom Metal, death growls, down tempo stuff.

Firtan
Ethos
AOP Records
13 September 2024
A bit of a classic black metal, with a bit more tech/prog melodic things happening

Hammerfilosofi
SOLUS (Igne Natura Renovator Integra)
ATMF
13 September 2024
Kind of a post-black metal, progressiveish longer tracks with some classic black metal stuff too

Father Befouled
Immaculate Pain
Everlasting Spew Records
13 September 2024
Raw, brutal and doomy blackened death

FÖRGJORD
Perkeleen Weri (CD, LP)
Werewolf
13 September 2024
Black metal, cold, melodic meedly

Solus Rex
Release Title: The Duellist’s Monologue
Label: Obelisk Polaris Productions
Release Date: September 9, 2024
Kind of a down tempo doomy death metal

IMMORTAL DEATH (Japan)
Immortal Death (CD, TAPE)
Werewolf
13 September 2024
Very raw old school death metal, maybe recorded live with a microcassette recorder?

Insurrection
Obsolescence
Bam Co. & Heavy
13 September 2024
Nice and meaty death/melodic death. Catchy groovin stuff!

Manuel Barbara
Whisper in a Storm
Self-Release
13 September 2024
Prog metal, with a pinch of metal/deathcore musically

Trip to the Morgue
Toe Tagged And Body Bagged
Wormholedeath
Sept 13
Grindcore, but with some groovin’ too.

Those Left Standing
Almere City Hardcore
Independent
7 September 2024
Hardcore, catchy and to the point

SKULL RIOT
TOO LITTLE… TOO LATE
SKULL RIOT
Kind of a groovin’ hardcore

WES ANDERSON (single)
GOODBYE (FT. STEPHEN RICHARDS)
THC MUSIC
Featuring Taproot frontman, a bit of a modern metal/nu metal ish sound

Playlist Title / Mosh Pit
DJ Name / The Pit Boss (Matt)
Playlist Start Date / Sep 2, 2024
Playlist Start Time / 11:00:00 PM
Playlist End Time / 2:00:00 AM

Artist / Song / Release / Label
Flotsam And Jetsam / A New Kind Of Hero / I Am The Weapon / Afm Records
Solitary / Iii-Xxiii-Mmxx (Intro) & Embrace The Darkness / Embrace The Darkness / Twisted Into Form
Palehorse / Wounded Animals / Wounded Animals / Indie Recordings
Exhorder / The Law / The Law / ?
Todd La Torre / Darkened Majesty / Rejoice in the Suffering / Rat Pak Records
Atrophy / Distortion / Asylum / Massacre Records
Angelus Apatrida / You Are Next / The Call / Century Media
Sidewalk Mafia / 6` Under / Soulcrushers / Sliptrick
The Crown / Churchburner / 2024 Singles / Metal Blade
Within The Ruins / Daywalker / Phenomena Ii / Mnrk Heavy
Demiser / Carbureted Speed / Slave To The Scythe / Metal Blade
Deceased / The Reaper Is Nesting / Children Of The Morgue / Hells Headbangers
God Is An Astronaut / Apparition / Embers / Napalm
Freya / Blood Thirst / Blood Thirst (Single) / Upstate
Infrared / Cataclysm / Manifestation / Self-Release
Death League / Annihilated Race / Inferno / Theogonia
Lamb Of God / What I’ve Become / Ashes Of The Wake (20th Anniversary Edition) / Epic Records
Future Palace / Dreamstate / Dreamstate (Single) / Arising Empire
Wolfheart / Evenfall / Draconian Darkness / Reigning Phoenix Music
Amiensus / Sólfarið / Reclamation Pt. Ii / M-Theory Audio
In Aphelion / Further From The Sun / Reaperdawn / Century Media
Wolfhorde / Tormented (Beyond Apprehension) / Bloodmoon Symphonies / Inverse
Iotunn / I Feel The Night / 2024 Singles / Metal Blade
Dark Tranquillity / Neuronal Fire / Endtime Signals / Century Media
Anciients / The Torch / Beyond The Reach Of The Sun / Season Of Mist
Robse / Amenthes / Harlekin & Krieger / Reaper Entertainment
Mister Misery / Root Of All Evil / Mister Misery / Afm Records
Jordan Rudess / The Final Threshold / Permission To Fly / Insideout
Simone Simons / Cradle To The Grave (Feat. Alyssa White Gluz) / Vermillion / Nuclear Blast
Dream Evil / Lightning Strikes / Metal Gods / Century Media Records
Hammerfall / Hero To All / Avenge The Fallen / Nuclear Blast
Leprous / Atonement / Melodies Of Atonement / Inside Out Music
Satan / Turn The Tide / 2024 Singles / Metal Blade
Heinous Exsanguination / Engorged With Hatred / The Stench Of Decaying Flesh / Gore House Productions
Fleshgod Apocalypse / Bloodclock / Opera / Nuclear Blast
Misanthropia / Organs For A Fair Price / Envy The Dead / Wormholedeath
Nails / Punishment Map / Every Bridge Burning / Nuclear Blast
Fulci / Maniac Unleashed / Duck Face Killings / 20 Buck Spin
Consumed By Vultures / Architetti Dell’ignoto / Pseudobiblion / L’arte Produce
Dragsholm / Irina’s Heart / Sorrow Hexen / Horror Pain Gore Death
Oxygen Destroyer / Nightmarish Visions Of The Devil’s Envoy / Guardian Of The Universe / Redefining Darkness Records
Nile / To Strike With Secret Fang / The Underworld Awaits Us All / Napalm
Gravery / Hate Is Now The Answer / Everything That Is Born Must Die / Upstate
Vile Rites / Only Silence Follows / Senescence / Carbonized
Furnace / Trojan Hearse / Trojan Hearse / Obelisk Polaris Productions
Phaethon / Eternal Hammerer / Wielder Of The Steel / Gates Of Hell
Mushroomhead / Torn In Two / Call The Devil / Napalm
Dampf / Ghost / No Angeles Alive / Silver Lining Music
Malamorte / Abisso Part Ii / Abisso / Moribund

WORT-FM Loud Rock Top 20 and Adds for the Week of 9/2/24

Artist — Album — Label
1) Dream Evil — Metal Gods — Century Media
2) In Aphelion — Reaperdawn — Century Media
3) Malamorte — Abisso — Moribund Metal
4) Dark Tranquillity — Endtime Signals — Century Media
5) Mushroomhead — Call The Devil — Napalm
6) Oxygen Destroyer — Guardian Of The Universe — Redefining Darkness
7) HammerFall — Avenge The Fallen — Nuclear Blast
8) Fleshgod Apocalypse — Opera — Nuclear Blast
9) Nile — The Underworld Awaits Us All — Napalm
10) Gravery — Everything That Is Born Must Die — Upstate
11) Death League — Inferno — Theogonia
12) Dampf — No Angels Alive — Silver Lining Music
13) Vile Rites — Senescence — Carbonized
14) Leprous — Melodies Of Atonement — Inside Out Music
15) Furnace — Trojan Hearse — Obelisk Polaris Prod.
16) Anciients — Beyond the Reach of the Sun — Season of Mist
17) Demiser — Slave To The Scythe — Metal Blade
18) Deceased — Children Of The Morgue — Hells Headbangers
19) Nails — Every Bridge Burning — Nuclear Blast
20) Fulci — Duck Face Killings — 20 Buck Spin

Top 5 Adds
1) Flotsam And Jetsam — I Am The Weapon — Afm Records
2) Wolfheart — Draconian Darkness — Reigning Phoenix Music
3) Future Palace — Dreamstate (Single) — Arising Empire
4) Amiensus — Reclamation Pt. II — M-Theory Audio
5) The Crown — 2024 Singles — Metal Blade

Other Adds/Reviewed: Solitary, Freya, Misanthropia, God Is An Astronaut, Victory, Sanctuarium, Moose Cult, Grendel’s Sÿster, Phaëthon, Bloody Valkyria, Drunkelweizen, Jordan Rudess, Pure Reason Revolution, Mallevs, Elephant Tree, Serotonin, Dragsholm, Sidewalk Mafia, Vølus, Gigantum, Heinous Exsanguination, Infrared, Dan Dark, Helvetets Port, Aluk Todolo, The Lucidia Project, Grave Sermon, Mister Misery, Palehørse, Vonavibe, Satan (Single), Kings Of Mercia (Single), Iotunn (Single)

Flotsam And Jetsam
I Am The Weapon
AFM Records
Radio Impact: 2 September 2024
Release: 13 September 2024
Great catchy thrash with crisp production and sounds like their last few albums… good stuff!

Wolfheart
Draconian Darkness
Reigning Phoenix Music
Melodic death with a little bit of an epic sound, gritty and punchy too.

Future Palace
Dreamstate (Single)
Arising Empire
Kind of a modern metal- female fronted, some grooves and solid-rockish

Amiensus
Album: Reclamation Pt. II
Label: M-Theory Audio
Release date: August 30th, 2024
Prog Black Metal, epic in parts, full on balck metal in others… the part 1 of this from earlier this year was pretty great and so is this

The Crown (single)
Crown of Thorns – radio singles
Metal Blade Records
11 October 2024
I don’t think this band has ever done anything bad… solid extreme thrashy stuff, a bit melodeath. can’t wait for more!

SOLITARY
EMBRACE THE DARKNESS
LABEL: TWISTED INTO FORM
RELEASE DATE: SEPTEMBER 6th 2024
Kind of a classic thrash, a bit catchy and technical too. Col stuff!

FREYA
BLOOD THIRST
UPSTATE RECORDS
Single of kinda groovin’ thrashy metalcore type stuff. Cool .

Misanthropia
Envy The Dead
Wormholedeath
September 6th, 2024
A little bit of a death metal and black metal attitude with some groovin’ catchy stuff too

God Is An Astronaut
Embers
Napalm
Laid back instrumental post-metal/rock type stuff. Some parts get a little more upbeat and prog-ish. overall fairly chill tho

Victory
Circle Of Life
AFM Records
Radio Impact: 2 September 2024
Kind of a classic metal/hard rock, solid grooves, AOR type vibe.

Sanctuarium
Melted and Decomposed
Me Saco Un Ojo / BlackSeed
3 September 2024
Sludgey black metal

Moose Cult
Book of the Machines
Eat Lead and Die Music
6 September 2024
Kind of an atmospheric yet classic black metal too with some meaty grooves and melodies too while mixing in some classic doom as well.

Grendel’s Sÿster
Katabasis Into The Abaton
Cruz Del Sur Music
6 September 2024
Classic metal, female fronted, a bit doomy and melodic with a pinch of folk

Phaëthon
Wielder of the Steel
Gates of Hell Records
6 September 2024
Kind of a classic metal with a little power metal element

Bloody Valkyria
Release Title: Kingdom in Fire
Label: Northern Silence Productions
Release Date: September 6, 2024
Epic / Melodic Black Metal basically three 12+minute tracks, decent stuff, tho, lots to digest

Drunkelweizen
Release Title: Pioneers of Alcohol
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: September 6, 2024
Folky drinky metal.

Jordan Rudess
Permission To Fly
Inside Out
I kind of have to automatically like this being a prog fan and Dream Theater super-fan. This obviously will have a keyboard-centric sound. Vocal parts are a bit more laid back, and come to think of it, most of it is more prog and less metal.

Pure Reason Revolution
Coming Up To Consciousness
Inside Out
Some more laid back prog from the same label as above…

MALLEVS
Release Title: The Hammer
Label: Floga Records
Release Date: September 6, 2024
Classic metal… and some big screamy vox in parts… decent stuff.

ELEPHANT TREE
Handful of Ten
Magnetic Eye Records
6 September 2024
Atmospheric kind of doom stuff

SEROTONIN
MOTIV
LABEL: NARCOLEPTICA PRODUCTIONS
RELEASE DATE: SEPTEMBER 2nd 2024
Kind of a blackend doom/death type thing

Dragsholm
Sorrow Hexen
Horror Pain Gore Death
September 6th
Kind of classic blackened death/black metal

SIDEWALK MAFIA
Album: Soulcrushers
Label: Sliptrick Records
Release date: September 3rd, 2024
Sometimes in these little reviews, its tough to really pigeonhole a subgenre, but sometimes they just tell you and it fits perfectly. Blackened Gothic/Doom Metal

VØLUS
Merciful the Dying Light
Vargheist Records
7 September 2024
Raw kind of sludgey black/death metal.

Gigantum
Self-Titled
Self-Release
6 September 2024
Groovin’ stoner/doom

Heinous Exsanguination
The Stench of Decaying Flesh
Gore House Productions
6 September 2024
Gore metal with groovin’ death and pig squeally vox

INFRARED
Manifestation
Self-Release
6 September 2024
Here’s some kind of basic-ish thrashy stuff… catchy and to the point with a little punky hardcore thing happening

Dan Dark
Release Title: Dark Avenger
Label: METALWORLD
Release Date: September 6, 2024
classic Hard Rock type stuff

HELVETETS PORT
Warlords
High Roller Records
6 September 2024
A little classic metal, a little doom, and a bit of a Ghost vibe too.

Aluk Todolo
LUX
NoEvDia / The Ajna Offensive
6 September 2024
Mostly a kind of sludgy post metal

The Lucidia Project
Requiem EP
Wormholedeath
September 6th, 2024
Melodic Metal with a little prog / modern alternative thing too

Grave Sermon
Release Title: Liturgical Perversions
Label: Self-Released
Release Date: September 1, 2024
Death Metal, fast and heavy, maybe a little of a thrash gallop to it too.

Mister Misery
Mister Misery
AFM Records
Kind of a modern groove metal but kind of more of a melodic death. Good stuff!

Palehørse
Wounded Animals
Indie Recordings
29 August 2024
Title track has a little mastodon vibe and pushing melodic death.

Vonavibe
Locked Up
Eclipse Records
23 August 2024
Modern metalcore EP of A Tears for Fears, The Weeknd, Linkin Park covers.

Satan (single)
Songs in Crimson – radio singes
Metal Blade Records
13 September 2024
Old school doomy classic metal

Kings of Mercia (single)
Battle Scars – radio singles
Metal Blade Records
25 October 2024
Jim Matheos and others with a supergroup of sorts… mostly AOR hard rockin’ type stuff.

Iotunn (single)
Kinship – radio singles
Metal Blade Records
25 October 2024
This single starts off a bit laid back and Post metal-ish before kicking in to some progressive melodic death type stuff.